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YouTube application

A website and mobile app that allows its users to upload
videos for free, watch them live, share, comment on them,
and more. The application was founded on February 14,
2005 by three former employees of PayPal, Chad Hurley,
Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in San Bruno, and used Adobe
Flash technology to display animated clips, but now it
adopts HTML5 technology.

Figure 49: Right-to-left YouTube founders (Jaoud Karim, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley).

The content of the site and the application varies between movie clips, television,
music, as well as amateur video and others. It currently has more than 2,000
employees, and in October 2006 Google announced an agreement to buy the site for
$1.65 billion (€1.31 billion), YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform
based in San Bruno, California, YouTube and its application are the second most visited
website in the world after Google search according to Alexa Internet rankings.
YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to playlists, report and
comment on videos, and subscribe with other users The available content includes
videos, TV show clips, music videos, short films, documentaries, audio recordings,
movie clips, live streaming, original short videos, and educational videos.

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